DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION (DIGITALIZATION) OF LIBRARIES IN UKRAINE: CURRENT STATE AND PERSPECTIVES

The purpose of the article is to define and highlighting the role of digital transformation (digitalization) for libraries in the long run: efficiency and problems. Methodology. In the process of research scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization of digitalization of the library industry are applied and the influence of digitalization on the formation of innovations of models of relations library-user taking into account today's civilizational challenges is determined. The scientific novelty The research consists in the analysis of online perspectives in the work of the library industry with an emphasis on key aspects of the dynamics of digital transformation (digitalization): new mobile (electronic) applications, services, application of sharing models. Further key vectors are substantiated and specific most problematic issues of digital transformation of libraries are identified. Conclusions. As a result of the research, today's steps on digitization in libraries, features of the use of platforms, virtual environment services, and sharing products were considered. The tendencies concerning the further steps in the increase of rates of digitalization are investigated. Proved: the practice of digitalization of libraries is especially relevant during the COVID pandemic period, which contributes to public access to information, self-education, as well as access to advanced technological developments, the transformation of libraries taking into account requests, according to generation theory, formation of new digitalization focus of library practices and modifications of library activities.

Analysis of a dream series by the Dream Coding System developed by Ulrich Moser

This paper serves psychotherapeutic process research and shows the process of change in a psychodynamic, individual psychological psychotherapy by means of a theory-based content analysis of the dreams reported in this therapy. The analysis of the patient’s dreams is carried out according to the dream coding method by Ulrich Moser and Vera Hortig (2019). The guiding question is about changes in positioning and interactions of the dream elements, how can they be determined and how (within the framework of the underlying dream generation theory) the influence of these changes on the patient’s ability to regulate affect can be assessed. Dream coding according to Moser and Hortig uses only the manifest dream and can be regarded as a research tool that rests, among other things, on psychoanalytic concepts, while at the same time taking into account more recent findings in dream and affect research. Its focus is on the coding of the present dream experience and the transformation of dream elements both within individual dreams and in the course of an entire dream series. It allows, without knowledge of the biographical anamnesis and without using psychoanalytic interpretation methods, to recognize changes in the dream structure and the affect regulation produced by it. The coding system thus also offers the possibility of making comparisons regarding the therapeutic changes achieved and thus (at least potentially) the effectiveness of different treatment methods (cf. Leuzinger-Bohleber, 2008, p. 7 f.). The coding of several dreams, i.e. the manifest dream content as a dream series highlighted the patient’s inner psychic change process: while the safety principle dominated the beginning, involvement increased and the use of the elements was more flexible and the interactions more mixed, to approach the initial dream again towards the end of the dream series. The coding indicates that the patient was able to increase her self-efficacy due to better containment of the emergent (dysfunctional) affects. This coding procedure serves as a promising empirical process assessment for carrying out single case studies.

Search for Information and the Net Generation

Supporters of the Net Generation theory claim that children born after 1985 have an in-depth grasp and almost ‘intuitive’ knowledge of how to use technology, simply because they have never known a world without the Internet and technological change. This theory contradicts traditional information theory which contends that information-seeking behaviour is a complex activity that is affected by cultural, educational and social contexts. Anecdotal evidence from schools and public libraries has long suggested that while young people actively use technology, they do not use it as described by the Net generation theorists. In recent years there has been an emerging body of research on the Net Generation that largely debunks the myth of an intuitive user who is capable of using electronic resources to find information, a fact many teacher librarians have long suspected. This paper explores the initialfindings of research into the information-seeking behaviour of young adults and how they use a range of technologies and electronic resources.

Social Support and Psychological Adjustment Among College Adults

Introduction: We were interested in building on previous studies showing the promotive and buffering roles of social support for emerging adults. We tested the associations of multiple domains of social support (i.e., family, friends) with measures of adjustment and adversity. Methods: Across four studies, U.S. college adults reported on domains of social support (family, friends, significant other), psychological adjustment (i.e., life satisfaction, flourishing), and psychological adversity (i.e., recent stress, depressive symptoms). Studies 1 and 4 were cross-sectional, whereas Studies 2 and 3 involved two, monthly survey reports. Study 4 was completed against the backdrop of early COVID-19 disruptions for college adults in the Spring of 2020. Results: In each study, each domain of social support was positively correlated with measures of adjustment and negatively correlated with measures of adversity. Partial correlations indicated that support from friends was incrementally associated with nearly every outcome, whereas support from family was incrementally associated with a majority of outcomes. Multiphase studies supported unidirectional, but not bidirectional, effects from earlier adjustment onto later social support. Discussion: Overall, findings reinforce the importance of social support for young adults and highlight the distinct importance of family and friends. Findings also suggest that a lack of perceived social support may contribute to risks fitting views such as the stress generation theory among emerging adults.